ended in May of 2021. >> I was Miguel Marquez reporting there now on to our continuing coverage this week
of domestic violence. Just part of domestic violence. Just part of a new initiative were called Breaking free for the music. The logos we’ve been getting started for this. We’re talking really about the emotional and physical impacts of abuse. Psychological is the word I was looking for. We’ve got child when here with us, Texas forensic nurse examiners Cha. Good to see you again, though. This is a very important topic. Let’s talk first about defining this emotional psychological abuse. >> Well, first of all, let’s make it very clear, emotional and psychological and is domestic violence. It’s those invisible wounds that people don’t see. It looks like deception manipulation, verbal threats, isolation. So there are myriad of things that show
up when we talk about emotional up when we talk about emotional and psychological abuse. So I guess from up for a lot of people when you hear domestic violence and if you think physical right away and we can’t ignore how important.
>> The psychological impacts. >> The psychological impacts. What are some of those effects? Yeah, there’s when we look at emotional and psychological abuse, we look at a perpetrator still exerting power and control over his or her victim. >> But we’re looking at verbal
threats. We’re looking at put threats. We’re looking at put downs. We’re looking at things that we call gaslighting. Hey, you’re crazy. That didn’t happen to you. We’re looking at things that are words and tactics to further Shane or
make somebody feel like they’re make somebody feel like they’re less then and the effects can be life changing for victims. I mean, they could go 3 through things for a lifetime like anxiety, depression addiction.
And we talk about something And we talk about something called the neurobiology of trauma, which is when something bad happens to you, it changes your brain chemistry. You lose agency over who you are, your decision-making abilities, how you feel about yourself. These can have debilitating lifelong effects. And it’s so important because that those are the survivors. I counsel that we see in the domestic violence front. >> So the abuser in that sense, the impact that they have on the victim, literally that changing who the person is by nature of the abuse. >> Yeah. I mean, victim can show up and really I feel like
they’re a shell of themselves they’re a shell of themselves and feel isolated and feel anxious and feel less bad and those are terrible. Debilitating effects. >> I imagine that might be somewhat of a fine line between
maybe maybe a couple. That’s maybe maybe a couple. That’s so it’ll joking. It’s a little pushing it a little nagging and then it crosses into the how can someone tell the difference because of their being gassed lighted? They’re meant to feel like this is normal. So how are they to even determine that? It’s not normal because they’re going to doubt themselves. And what you talk
about is that slow trickling about is that slow trickling effects of abuse and over time, how it wears and wears on a victim. >> Where ultimately they lose agency and worth over themselves so we can see those
signs. We can see that in a signs. We can see that in a person when something doesn’t feel right in a relationship, it probably isn’t quite so. We talk about healthy relationships and not healthy relationship. So when you meet with your clients and folks that you help a typically have they gone through something already? Are they in the process and you’re really helping them understand who they are really in that this isn’t this isn’t truly you. It’s it’s time for a change.
Where are they? Typically in Where are they? Typically in the process, survivors abusive relationships on many levels over periods of time. Sometimes they come to us after the violence has occurred. Look, they just want the physical violence today than there are
things that lead up to it. things that lead up to it. And it’s those tactics that we mentioned, you know, putting a gun down saying, you know, if you don’t do this, I might use this telling them they’re crazy. Know that didn’t happen.
That’s where vision U.S. That’s where vision U.S. history. So it really survivors are very confused. Often times when they come see us about what has happened. Again, the whole point of the reason we’re
